Being able to proactively block malicious API calls is the holy grail of API security. But it requires a deep understanding of your APIs. Very few organizations have the confidence required to enable blocking of malicious requests. Enter FireTail. Our end-to-end API security platform will give your organization the confidence and context needed to block malicious API requests in real-time, before they can do damage.
The ability to proactively and accurately block malicious API calls provides the highest level of API protection at runtime. Being able to identify and reject malicious API calls at the earliest stage possible protects you against even the most sophisticated attacks or vulnerability exploits including excessive data exposure, code injection, broken authentication and authorization, and DoS attacks.
When it comes to blocking malicious API calls, WAFs and API Gateways tend to rely on rate limiting, API throttling or blocking based on a ports, protocols, geographies or other legacy characteristics that aren’t as relevant in a Cloud-first world. These approaches lack the necessary context to accurately identify truly malicious actively. Most attacks start slow and look like normal requests. AI and ML-based anomaly detection that learns normal traffic patterns over time is prone to false positives. That means genuine calls getting blocked and real impacts on your business.
In order to accurately and effectively block malicious API calls, you need the type of context only available at the application layer. FireTail's open-source libraries combined with the advanced inventory and posture management capabilities of our cloud platform provide you with the context and confidence needed to block malicious API calls, accurately and efficiently.
Here are some common reasons that people contact FireTail. Feel free to have a look, and reach out if these don't help.
Network layer security, such as having a firewall in place, does not offer protection against many of the common methods of invoking a malicious API call. Many of the API incidents that occur, occur at an application layer.
Authentication is essential and one of the most important tools in protecting your APIs against malicious calls. FireTail’s Open API spec provisions for authentication. The open API spec makes it a lot easier for you to verify and see that all of your routes have the proper authentication. The FireTail SaaS platform provides you additional context that you can see when requests are logged to the platform.
In short, yes! Set up with just a few lines of code. The FireTail library is intended to be used as middleware. The library sits in line in the application and provides you with a centralized application layer security. Instantly benefit from API call inspection, protection against malicious calls, and centralized logging.
FireTail can coordinate rules for blocking with certain third-party systems, like WAFs and API Gateways from the cloud provider. Contact us if you want to discuss your needs in this area.
